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2013.368. Bernice L. Sullivan Collection

September 25, 2015

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Collection Summary

Title
Bernice L. Sullivan Collection
Repository Number
2013.368
Repository
Oklahoma Historical Society, Research Archives

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Bernice L. Sullivan Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division

Processing Information

Released on 2015-08-18.

format M2013.368. Manuscripts

Other/Variant Title
M2013.368 location 1768.03
Quantity
1 legal thin box (location 1768.03)

Administrative Information

Originals/Duplicates

Mix of some originals and some copies.

Description of Material

Contains personal correspondence from the family of Bernice Higbee Moore Sullivan, and genealogical information on the Sullivan, Adams, Dorsett, Shields, and Postlethwaite families.

Processing Information

Released on 2015-08-18.

box 1. Correspondence, Genealogy

Other/Variant Title
M2013.368 location 1768.03

Administrative Information

Container List

Folder 1. Personal Correspondence, from Grandmother of Bernice Sullivan to her daughter, Bernice's Aunt and Cousin Beck, May-June 1895.

Folder 2. Personal Correspondence, to Flora from Nina, on the eve of Nina's wedding, 10 November 1899.

Folder 3. Personal Correspondence, to Mrs. Flora Jensen from Nina (Mother of Bernice Sullivan) 1904-1905, re: sending child alone on train to Oklahoma, domestic abuse of sister Flora.

Folder 4. Personal Correspondence, from Tennye (Tennie) Compton to Flora Jensen, August 1904 - September 1905, discussing Nina Higbee's illness and death, January 1908, calling card.

Folder 5. Funeral Services, Card, Obituary, Nina Bradbury Higbee, died April 17, 1905, aged 23 years, Edmond, Oklahoma Territory.

Folder 6. Newspaper Clippings, copies, John Quincy Adams Family, Tennie Compton, Mrs. Nelson Compton.

Folder 7. Personal Correspondence, Bernice, 27 July 1955.

Folder 8. Business Correspondence, Mr. Claude Sullivan, State Fair Win, October 1936, Anniversary of Agricultural Adjustment Act, July 1968.

Folder 9. Certificates, Claude S. Sullivan.

Folder 10. Newspaper Clippings - Claude Sullivan, County Agent, Wewoka, OK, 1933-1936.

Folder 11. Marriage Certificate, C. S. Sullivan and Glayds Thompson, 2 April 1927, Lincoln County, OK.

Folder 12. Marriage Certificate, F. H. Sullivan and Alice Dorsett, 25 December 1887, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Folder 13. Discharge Papers, Joseph W. Shields, July 1805, December 1863.

Folder 14. Marriage Certificate, J. W> Shields and Ellen Adams, 22 October 1879.

Folder 15. Business Correspondence, Joseph W. Shields from Pressed Steel Car Company, 2 January 1917.

Folder 16. Certificate, Resolution of Respect in the Memory of Joseph W. Shields, 25 January 1929.

Folder 17. Keepsakes of Great Aunt Ellen Shields, Calling Cards,including John Quincy Adams.

Folder 18. Newspaper clippings, Shields-Postlethwaite Families.

Folder 19. Flyer, J. G. Adams, the Gospel Temperance Evangelist of Texas, will deliver his famous lecture titled "The 450 Mile Street of Hell".

Folder 20. Family Genealogy Notes.

Processing Information

Released on 2015-08-18.